Re: Proposal question.

[Christian Edward Gruber]

I found the proposal quite good.  Frankly, I see no drastic reason to depart
from the Apple current filesystem, hosted on GNUSTEP_ROOT, which (with minor
nits) is what I see as the gist of this proposal.

I would really prefer to see GNUStep use this layout consistently.

The only thing I'd be interested in is having $(HOME)/.GNUstep, instead of
$(HOME)/GNUstep.  It's more consistent with $(HOME)/.OpenStep, which keeps a
hidden directory.

so:

 $(GNUSTEP_ROOT)/System
 $(GNUSTEP_ROOT)/Network
 $(GNUSTEP_ROOT)/Local
 $(HOME)/.GNUstep

as the four contexts.

regards,
Christian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Harrison" <tim@linuxstep.org>
To: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: Proposal question.


>
> Hey all.
>
> I've sent two versions of my GNUstep Filesystem Hierarchy proposal to
> the mailing list here, and haven't received very much feedback.  This
> leads me to one of two conclusions:
>
> 1.  no one is interested in utilising this proposal
> 2.  it's so long, people are still trying to get to the end of it.
>
> My reasons for submitting this proposal are many and varied.  Along with
> the need for standardisation, one of the reasons most important to me,
> in particular, is the need to integrate GNUstep into LinuxSTEP.
>
> So, therefore, I have these questions:
>
> a.  Is anyone interested in seeing this proposal used?
> b.  If yes, what problems do you see that would need to be addressed?
> c.  If no, would anyone be terribly offended if a patch was created that
> the LinuxSTEP base team could apply to a release of GNUstep for
> integration into LinuxSTEP?
> d.  Is there an official release planned soon, so that the LinuxSTEP
> base team can use that as a baseline (as the CVS code tends to change at
> a moment's notice, effectively forcing applications to be recompiled)?
>
> I really don't wish to force LinuxSTEP users to have to reinstall their
> applications every time there's a new release of GNUstep.  That would be
> significantly detrimental to the acceptance of a new system.  Especially
> one that's based on the GNUstep environment.
>
> <shameless call for help>
>
> Also, we're in dire need of a few more developers to help with getting
> LinuxSTEP further along.  If you're interested, please contact either
> myself (tim@linuxstep.org), Eric Sammer (eric@linuxstep.org), or join
> the LinuxSTEP-general mailing list
> (http://lists.linuxstep.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxstep-general).
>
> </shameless call for help>
>
>
> --
>
> Tim Harrison
> tim@linuxstep.org
> http://www.linuxstep.org/
>
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